Dickerson, Terrance

Tenure Summary

Terrance Dickerson has served as Warden of Jenkins Facility since January 1, 2024, and that posting — his only leadership position in these records — remains open, with no end date recorded. His personnel status is listed as active. No salary figure is recorded for 2024.

Six deaths are attributed to his tenure as a facility leader, all of them at Jenkins Facility. That is the authoritative total for his leadership. Three are recorded in the registry as Natural/Medical, one as a Suicide, one as a Homicide, and one with the cause still listed as Unknown/Pending. The records list no lawsuit naming Dickerson as a defendant.

What happened on their watch

Jenkins Facility — Warden, January 1, 2024 to present

Six deaths fall inside Dickerson's time as warden at Jenkins Facility:

• Earl Franklin Waggy died March 3, 2024, at Jenkins Facility; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 65.
• James Lee Powell died September 17, 2024, at Jenkins Facility; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 72.
• Alonzo Wright died January 9, 2025, at Jenkins Facility; the registry lists the cause as Homicide.
• Jason Brent Melton died April 10, 2025, at Jenkins Facility; the registry lists the cause as Suicide, age 41.
• Charles Edward Richey died April 17, 2026, at Jenkins Facility; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 58.
• Dustin Scott Scarbro died April 21, 2026, at Jenkins Facility; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 27.

The pattern across the six is largely medical: three of the six are recorded as Natural/Medical, with the decedents whose ages are listed ranging from 27 to 72. One homicide (Alonzo Wright) and one suicide (Jason Brent Melton) are recorded. Two of the deaths, Richey and Scarbro, fall four days apart in April 2026. Powell's cause is shown as Unknown/Pending — GPS does not yet know it, and it is not inferred here.

Two intelligence items indexed to his Jenkins tenure bear directly on events at the facility. An inmate report submitted to GPS and dated July 11, 2026 states that two older adults were stabbed in a housing unit at Jenkins Facility; that is a submitted claim, not an adjudicated finding. A web-form allegation dated April 21, 2026 — the same date as Scarbro's death — states that an incarcerated person at Jenkins Facility was found unresponsive during a routine count, prompting a medical response and a facility-wide lockdown and shakedown, with the cause remaining undetermined.

Other records dated within his warden tenure, as titled, include: a March 17, 2026 lawsuit entry stating that a federal judge denied the State Board of Pardons and Paroles' motion to dismiss and ruled that the parole process for juvenile lifers may violate the Eighth Amendment, naming Janice Buttrum; a March 8, 2026 incident titled "Nine hospitalized after gang fight at Wilcox State Prison"; a May 17, 2025 incident naming Katie Molleur concerning denial of an emergency contact addition and barriers to family communication; a May 17, 2025 report naming Jason Palmer, held in segregation with reported denial of adequate food, phone access, emergency contact registration, severe hunger and inadequate staff oversight; and a December 28, 2024 record naming Brian Adams, titled "Warden Brian Adams engaged in RICO operation at Smith State Prison." These entries are indexed to his Jenkins tenure while their titles reference other institutions; they are stated here as the records state them, not as findings against Dickerson.

Sources

• GPS Death Registry — six deaths recorded at Jenkins Facility during Dickerson's warden tenure, including causes and ages as listed above.
• GPS intelligence case submissions — one inmate report (July 11, 2026, stabbing of two older adults) and one web-form allegation (April 21, 2026, unresponsive person, lockdown and shakedown).
• Federal court ruling referenced in GPS intelligence records (March 17, 2026) — parole process for juvenile lifers and Eighth Amendment; names Janice Buttrum.
• GPS intelligence incident and report records indexed to Jenkins Facility during his tenure — entries naming Katie Molleur, Jason Palmer and Brian Adams, and the March 8, 2026 gang-fight incident.

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Oct 11, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.